I've found that if I don't keep up with the pictures, then I will not post them. It's important to me to have this record of my boys' young lives, so I need to make more of an effort!


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 We were predicted to get 10-15" snowfall during this Snowpocalypse 2011.  Jake's school was canceled last night around 7:30.  The meterologists were predicting horrible conditions and warning everyone to stay off the roads as much as possible to allow road crews to work and clear everything and to avoid the hazardous conditions.

When we woke up ( Read more... )

(copied from www.weather.com) 
Issued by The National Weather Service
Detroit, MI
4:36 am EST, Mon., Jan. 31, 2011

( Winter storm watch )

We ordered Ben a play kitchen for Christmas and enjoyed a 2-hour marathon of putting it together when it arrived after Thanksgiving.  Then we promptly hid it in the guest bedroom which we rarely open.  
Well, Jake lost his cell phone on the bus a couple weeks ago (long story, subject of a whole other post) and he was going into that room and into ( Read more... )

So you have all probably read the chain emails "pass this on if it's true!" sort of thing about how where you grew up it was always either winter or construction season, how people dressed up for Halloween over their snowsuits.

The whole problem is-- where I grew up, it is literally fact.
Take, for example, these photographs sent this morning by my ( Read more... )